The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The underlying budget dynamics today are particularly challenging for three reasons. First, revenues have not caught up with expenditures. Second, under our estimates, expenditure growth exceeds estimated revenue growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Advantages to the bidder include bid price adjustments (in the case of lowest price contracts) or point increases (in the case of contracts awarded based on scoring crite ria). For example, in contracts awarded based on the lowest price, a bidder’s “price” can be adjusted downward for the purpose of awarding the contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - The bonds will be repaid over time using MH SA funds. NPLH has supported 247 projects and 7,852 housing units are anticipated. As of August 2022, 119 projects are under construction, 30 projects have been completed, and 498 units have units have been completed and are occupied.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2021-22 Budget: California Arts Council

Feb 1, 2021 - How Would the Matching Requirement Work? At this time, there is very little information available on how the proposed matching requirement would work. This includes who would provide the match and how much of a match would be required.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4337

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs Organizational Improvement Office

Feb 24, 2023 - Recommendations Reduce Funding and Positions to Match Current Levels on a Limited-Term Basis. We recommend that the Legislature reduce the proposed funding and positions to match the current authorized levels of $894,000 and five positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4704

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - In addition, the 2021 ‑22 spending plan includes budget-related legislation that provides the programs above broader eligibility for the use of funding and temporarily waives requirements that counties provide matching funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - (That is, in our view, these costs would not have occurred absent legislative action and as a result do not contribute to the budget problem the Legislature faces today.) Comparison to LAO November Outlook.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 19, 2023 - Figure 1 Major Discretionary Housing and Homelessness Spending (In Millions) Department of Housing and Community Development Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program $1,100 Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program 83 State Excess Sites Local Government Matching Grant Program 75 Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization Program 75 Veteran Housing
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4808

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget provides the Department of Finance with authority to augment CMD ’s budget by up to $4.8  million if CMD receives federal matching funds for the purpose of replacing three deteriorating heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems at the Azusa, Sacramento-Okinawa, and Fresno-Hammer Field armories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - The elimination of this proposal is scored as one of the solutions to the budget problem facing the state in 2024 ‑25 and projected budget deficit in 2025 ‑26. However, the May Revision does maintain the $250  million General Fund included in CDT ’s state operations budget in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906